43 Cornmarket Street: NatWest Bank

In 1772 a survey of every house in the city was taken in consequence of the Mileways Act of 1771. According to Salter, No. 43 was occupied by Pricket and had a frontage measuring 9 yards 0 feet 6 inches.

In 1899 the linen draper Alfred Bull combined this shop with his original shop at No. 44 to the south. The photograph below dating from c.1920 shows the earlier shops at No. 43 (right) and part of No. 44 (left) when the drapers H. & E. Morton occupied both shops.

43 Cornmarket Street in the censuses

1841

1851

The ironmonger John Beck Brown (26), described as the employer of six men, lived here with his wife Emma (22) and his daughter Annie (one month). A shopman also lived with them, and they had one female servant.

1861

The ironmonger John Beck Brown (36), described as the employer of six men and three boys, lived here with his wife Emma (32) and his sons Charles (8) and Thomas (4). Also living with them are an assistant ironmonger Thomas Bodgner (20) and an apprentice ironmonger Edward Copeland (18). They had a female house servant and a nursemaid.

1871

John W. Hinckton (42), a surgeon, lived here with his wife Eliza (53) and his children Eliza (28), Lewis (25), Agnes (21), Adolphus (19), Francis (17), and Etherstan (14). They had one servant.

1881

James Anns (28), described as porter, lived here with his wife Ellen (28), described as a housekeeper.